Good News: KSU rethinks censoring Ruth Stanford’s “A Walk in the Valley,” offers to reinstate it

The protest at the Zuckerman museum's opening gala. (Photo by Chris Appleton)

KSU removed Ruth Stanford’s installation A Walk in the Valley last week.

Kennesaw State University President Daniel Papp’s decision to censor A Walk in the Valley, an installation by Ruth Stanford commissioned for the inaugural exhibition of the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum, on March 1 unleashed a torrent of backlash. Perhaps because of the media excoriation, in-person protests and a petition signed by some 1,300 people, the university has recognized its mistake and has asked the artist to reinstall her piece. Our friends at Burnaway got the story.

The protest at the Zuckerman Museum’s opening gala. (Photo by Chris Appleton)

Catherine Fox is co-founder of ArtsATL and served as executive director, executive editor and chief art critic for its first six years. She was art and architecture critic at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 27 years, during which time she was Cox Writer of the Year, twice winner of Cox awards in criticism, received two Green Eyeshade Awards and an award from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. She holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Michigan. She is a co-author of Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape. She received the 2013 Community Impact Administrator Arts Award from the Emory College Center for Creativity Arts for her work on ArtsATL.